FRANKFURT, Germany – In a sleek and modern new stand at this year’s Automechanika Frankfurt, Brembo is unveiling a new innovation. The focal point of the company’s exhibit this year is the new range of ultraviolet-coated brake discs it has developed.

“More and more in the aftermarket, coated discs were starting to appear,” said Marco Moretti, aftermarket business unit marketing director for Brembo. “We decided to react in a ‘Brembo’ way. We always try to be innovators in the market, not just follow.”

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Over the past three years, Marek Urban has fielded interviews from the New York Times, National Geographic, Japanese TV programs and a host of prominent publications from around the world.

Now his work on self-healing plastics has received high praise from the British magazine Stuff as “One of the five materials that could change the world.”

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This research project demonstrated robust performance properties for an environmentally friendly chromium-free solvent-free hybrid ultraviolet (UV) coating system suitable for applications such as industrial, automotive, and aerospace corrosion resistance.

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By Dan Curtin and John Murray, Prime Coatings www.primecoatings.net

When Trek began in 1976, in a small Wisconsin town, there mission was simple: Build the best bikes in the world.  Today Trek is a Global leader producing high performance bicycles and framesets that are marketed around the world. The Trek Bicycle family includes, Bontrager accessories, Villiger Bikes, Diamant Bikes and the Gary Fischer Collection.

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Tiny hills and valleys on the surface of leaves have guided a team of Princeton University scientists in the creation of a new kind of solar cell. By wrinkling up a layer of adhesive, the team designed solar cells that can capture more light, even in the infrared region.

“If you look at leaves very closely, they are not smooth,” said Yueh-Lin Loo, Princeton’s principle investigator on the project. “We’d like to mimic this geometric effect in synthetic, man-made light-harvesting systems.”

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